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Combining the skills of humans and robots, cognitive on the one hand and physical on the other, unlocks the possibility of accomplishing complex tasks in possibly unstructured environments and in the most diverse application domains, including manufacturing, surgical, domestic, assistive, agricultural, and tertiary, to name a few. Although the prospects of such cooperation are exciting, its implementation and integration pose major unresolved problems: i) How to cope with human unpredictability and try to anticipate his/her actions to ensure proactivity? ii) How to make the robot “acceptable” to the humans and ensure fluent interaction? iii) How to quantify the goodness of an interaction? iv) What are the commonalities and differences in terms of requirements for different applications, and can there be a unified solution? We aim to discuss these and more challenges that arise from human-robot collaboration by connecting scientists from different subfields of robotics, including perception, control and mechanics. The workshop will focus on, but is not limited to, the following topics for human robot collaboration:
  • Human state estimation and prediction
  • Online replanning for human-robot collaboration
  • Safety in human-robot collaboration
  • Benchmarking and evaluation of interaction performance
  • Social robots
  • Application-specific challenges: healthcare, manufacturing, assistive robotics, agriculture, etc.

Schedule

Time Zone: GMT+02 (Rome time)

Time Activity
09:30 - 09:40 Welcome
09:40 - 10:05 Andrea Orlandini, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC-CNR), Italy: Deploying AI solutions in Advanced Manufacturing Scenarios
10:05 - 10:30 Silvia Rossi, University of Naples, Italy: Human and Context Awareness: Toward Socially Enhanced Autonomous Capabilities
10:30 - 10:55 Alberto Sanfeliu, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain: The Perception-Intention-Action cycle in Human-Robot Collaboration
10:55 – 11:20 Arash Ajoudani, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy: Learning and control for flexible human robot interaction in industry
11:20 - 11.40 Coffee break
11:40 – 12:05 Danica Kragic, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden: Robots: acting and interacting
12:05 – 12:30 Daniele Nardi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy: Experiences and reflections on HRI @ DIAG
12:30 - 12:55 Francesco Ferro, CEO PAL Robotics, Spain: Service Social Robotics from an industry point of view
12:55 – 13:20 Andrea Maria Zanchettin, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Collaborative robotics: from safe robots to intelligent coworkers
13:20 – 13:30 Closing remarks

Organizers

  • Martina Lippi, Roma Tre University, Italy
  • Alessandro Marino, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy

Contact

If you have any questions please contact Martina Lippi at the email: martina.lippi AT uniroma3 DOT it